Quotes About Monk

by now it is more pleasurable for a monk to read marble than manuscript, and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. Shame! For the desire of your eyes and for your smiles!" The old man stopped, out of breath.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of the obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth-century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German monk toward the end of the fourteenth century.

Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

A priest? I said. --A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis. --Theologian, said the other. --One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.

I recollect not a single passage in all the writings ascribed to the men called apostles, that conveys any idea of what God is. Those writings are chiefly controversial; and the subjects they dwell upon, that of a man dying in agony on a cross, is better suited to the gloomy genius of a monk in a cell, by whom it is not impossible they were written, than to any man breathing the open air of the Creation.

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities!

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert, for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of a lack of ability or a lack of ambition. I am not deficient in either of these qualities!

Whether you are the head of a temple, a senior monk or other officer, or simply an ordinary monk, do not forget the attitude behind living out your life with joy, having the deep concern of a parent, and carrying out all your activities with magnanimity. Written by D?gen in the spring of 1237 at K?sh?-ji for followers of the Way in succeeding generations.

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He would probably think that the Good was the same thing as God — like a less educated monk of the Dark Ages. Personification

I said to this monk… I heard you got a stock of shoes here. Piss off, he said to me.

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books;

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer realizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Mr. Monk, Please" I whispered. "We're in a church". "We're in hot zone for disease" Mr Monk Said "Someone's got to save these people

Mr. Monk" I said "People have been sanctifying themselves with holy water for thousands of years" . "That explains the black death, among other things" Monk said "Wipe, Wipe, Wipe

Monk came out of the kitchen with a glass of milk.

As soon as the pizza was ready, Monk cut it into eight even slices.

I am just a simple monk. The sun shines on the just and unjust alike. If the sun does not judge, then who am I to do so?

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

She understood he became a monk in order to be above those who considered his superiors...it led him to God, to his childhood`s faith which had never been destroyed in him...